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Thought for the Week
The Promise of Liberation: Today’s Gospel describes how, on a Sabbath, Jesus stood before the people in the synagogue of his hometown, Nazareth, reading and interpreting what Isaiah had prophesied about the Messiah. Jesus rooted and grounded his mission and ministry in the written word of Isaiah, particularly in the passage in which the Spirit sends the prophet to bring good news to the poor, liberation to captives, recovery of sight to the blind and freedom for the oppressed; a language that reflects the Biblical year of Jubilee. These words had long since been seen as applying to the coming Messiah. To the great amazement and disbelief of his own townsmen, Jesus declared that Isaiah’s prophecy was being fulfilled in him at that very moment because the prophet was foretelling and describing His mission and ministry. The synagogue Liturgy of the Word was based on seven readings. The first four were from the Law (the Torah or the Pentateuch) followed by explanations given by the rabbi who was the teacher of the Law. The second set of three readings, taken from the>>
Saints/Feast Days Of the Week
>>28th: St Thomas Aquinas
>>31st: St John Bosco
>>2nd: The Presentation of the Lord
St. John XXIII
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